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Sunday, January 12, 2014

The Fall of the Roman Empire

I have always been willing to bargain with my enemies. Can we not make a treaty? — Dying Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wants to bargain with dead and the blind boatman who will ferry him across Styx to Hades, the Underworlds — Alec Guinness in Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

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Dibyajyoti Sarma worked as Senior Copy Editor with a national daily published from Pune, and later in Delhi, India. He wrote his pre-doctoral thesis on Western Queer Theory and how it differs from Indian queer experience. He has published two volumes of poems 'Glimpses of a Personal History' from Writers Workshop, Kolkata, in 2004, and Pages From An Unfinished Autobiography from i, write, imprint, New Delhi, and a volume of interviews co-edited with R Raj Rao, 'Whistling in the Dark: 21 Queer Interviews' from Sage Publication, New Delhi, in 2009. He is currently working on his first novel, 'Being Alive', and a short story collection, 'Che isn't just a T-Shirt'. His writings have appeared in both print and web magazines.